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A PALE-GREEN JADE-INSET ZITAN
SCEPTRE, RUYI
19th century
The arched shaft inset with three jade
plaques, the ruyi head carved in low relief
with a caparisoned elephant decorated with a
double-happiness character, carrying a moon
flask with a taiji symbol dividing two swooping
bats and with finger citron borne on leafy
gnarled branches to the mid-section, and
pomegranates to the terminal, the translucent
jade plaques of an attractive even pale tone.
49.3cm (19 5/8in) long

£3,000 - 5,000
CNY26,000 - 43,000

十九世紀 紫檀嵌玉三鑲如意

Provenance: an English private collection,
and thence by descent

來源： 英國私人收藏，並由後人保存迄今

239

VARIOUS OWNERS 各方藏家

239 Provenance: a French private collection A related jade vase of similar shape and
AN ARCHAISTIC PALE GREEN JADE interlacing designs of scrollworks and taotie
ARROW VASE, HU 來源：法國私人收藏 masks, Qianlong fanggu mark and period,
Qianlong is illustrated in The Complete Collection of
The vase of flattened archaistic hu form, rising The high degree of fluidity noted in the Treasures in the Palace Museum: Jadeware,
from a slightly splayed and stepped foot delicate carving of this vessel reflects the Beijing, 1995, pl.147; see also two further
to a waisted neck and galleried mouthrim, Qianlong emperor’s wish to revive archaic examples of related jade hu vases, Qing
decorated in low relief with designs of forms to reinforce the values of antiquity. The dynasty, in the National Palace Museum,
interlacing scrollwork issuing from taotie unusual design of the present vase is likely Taipei, decorated with archaistic interlaced-
mask and terminating in dragon heads, below to have been inspired by the bronze vessels dragon design, illustrated in The Refined
upright cicada lappets, the polished stone of the Zhou dynasty. A drawing of a closely- Taste of the Emperor: Special Exhibition of
of an even pale green tone with cloudy and related bronze hu, decorated with alternating Archaic and Pictorial Jades of the Ch’ing
russet inclusions. 18cm (7 1/8in) high designs of interlacing scrollwork and taotie Court, Taipei, 1997, pls.21-22. See also a
masks, is illustrated in the Xiqing Gujian (西清 champlève enamel and gilt-bronze vase of
£2,000 - 3,000 古鑑), a catalogue of early ritual bronzes from similar form and designs, Qianlong, illustrated
CNY17,000 - 26,000 the Imperial collection and published under in The Complete Collection of Treasures in
the auspices of the Qianlong emperor. the Palace Museum. Cloisonné in the Qing
清乾隆 青白玉仿古龍紋壺 Dynasty (1644-1911), Beijing, 2011, pl.85.

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